When you’re writing fiction, you want to do more than “tell a story.” You want to tell a good story, a powerful story. You want to write something people can’t put down. C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces provides an
Hard Advice for Authors: Dig the Words from Your Soul
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and